You Will Have Your Train Ticket

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“…So that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them” (1 Thes. 3:3, NIV).

Uh oh. Destined for trials? Us? Apparently so, according to this verse. Hmm. Is it possible to avoid being “unsettled by them,” as Paul infers here? Apparently so, since Holy Spirit included this word in the canon of Scripture!

What does this mean, though? Are we talking about some super-human standard where nothing at all is supposed to ruffle our feathers, no matter how harrowing? I don’t believe so. Instead, I sense Holy Spirit is talking about Continue reading You Will Have Your Train Ticket